Rocky Mount Telegram, 29 June 2016 – Project Momentum Inc., a local nonprofit agency founded in 2005, has received a Creating New Economies Fund grant of $10,000 from The Conservation Fund’s Resourceful Communities program to help fund the MAPScorps project in Nash and Edgecombe counties.

MAPScorps is a program that pairs local youth in the area with science-oriented university students. Working in teams, MAPScorps youth will walk every block of their communities, observing, collecting, cataloguing and analyzing data from the businesses and organizations in the community

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